adverb
nōnāgiēns
nōnāgiēns (not comparable)
Classical[noːˈnaː.ɡi.ẽːs]Ecclesiastical[noˈnaː.d͡ʒi.ens]
Meaning
- not comparableninety times
Ita in frumentum imperatum HS duodetriciens in annos singulos Verri decernebatur quod aratoribus solveret, in alteras decumas fere ad nonagiens. It was thus ordered by Verrus that each year 𐆘2,800,000 shall be paid by farmers and a surcharge of up to 𐆘9,000,000.
70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.3.163
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nōnāgiēns (-giēs) adv.
nonaginta, ninety times : nonagiens sestertium, ninety times a hundred thousand sesterces .